Posted on 07/29/2023 12:40:09 PM PDT by Morgana
An explosion that set a homeless encampment in Seattle ablaze on July 21 was due to explosive devices, according to law enforcement.
The devices that were detonated at the scene may have a connection to a fight for control over who is in charge of the drug trade among the homeless population in the area, KOMO reported Wednesday.
The blaze the erupted July 21 was initially reported as a brush fire that was seen burning up numerous trees at the site near Interstate 5 and a hospital.
Video footage shows the blazing inferno consuming everything in its path:
The cause was unknown at the time, but the police report obtained by KOMO said witnesses who saw the explosion deemed it a targeted attack on a fentanyl tent with people inside.
The article noted:
“[Witness] stated minutes prior to the explosion he saw the devices and alerted others inside. [Witness] stated everyone inside the tent freaked out and exited by lifting the other side of the structure to escape. [Witness] stated he then attempted to exit south due to hearing gunshots and flashing from the bush to the northeast, but saw another IED south of the structure,” a Seattle police officer wrote in the report.
Seattle police arson investigators later learned the ex-leader of the camp had been replaced and the individual reportedly came back to the area, armed with a gun, to allegedly commit robbery at the tent.
One witness claimed the suspect had previously fashioned explosives using plastic buckets, and the individual was also accused of teaching others at the camp to make such devices.
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I’m trying, really trying to care. Nope.
darn
I was hoping it was vigilantes.
You wanted someone to blow up the camps? On purpose?
Somebody DID blow them up, on purpose.
“Somebody DID blow them up, on purpose.”
Yep. And, like you, I don’t care either. Seattle voted for this.
Is that anything like an opium den?
The wording suggests that the city or the state is rebuilding the hobo jungle.
the people in these encampments are being paid by the government and the drug pushers want that money. Big bucks in poor places
Cut their money out and it will go away.
Using plastic buckets, and the individual was also accused of teaching others at the camp to make such devices.
MS13 going low tech no overhead big results.
I was watching a video the other day that was discussing homelessness in American cities. I forget who made the video, but it was some leftist that got a honest dose of reality. What struck me about what he said was that these homeless camps are not homeless camps. They are 24 hour drug markets. They don’t start out as homeless camp. The begin with people selling drugs on the street. Users show up and some shoot up or do what they do with the drugs they buy right on the spot. After a while, enough of them just stay and you have a drug camp, not a homeless camp. The emphasis shouldn’t be on homeless, but on drugs.
The drugs are why they are homeless.
“The drugs are why they are homeless.” True. Some men have painful trauma and disabilities that require ethical medication (zoloft, prozac) or unethical medication (vodka, heroin). One simple solution to the homeless problem is to have every father and mother with a child on the street to care for the child with housing, medicine and meals.
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